The 50 Most Influential Tall Buildings of the Last 50 Years
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- The skyscraper has a history extending back more than 120 years, but it entered a new phase of innovation and acceleration in the late 1960s.
- The tall buildings captured here are selected on the same criteria, through the combined input of the CTBUH Research and Data team, CTBUH Leaders, and a call to the member constituency at large.
- Each represents a milestone in the development of the typology, tracking the development of the tall building from a predominantly commercial office tower with repetitive floor plates, to a “vertical city” with the mix of uses, variation in façade materials, and variety of interior and exterior spaces implied by the title.
- Across these examples, we see the arrival and departure of the distinct International and Post-Modern styles, as well as the overlapping parametricism and contextualism that dominates the contemporary scene.
- We see the transition from symbols of North American corporate power to broadcasting devices for the arrival of entire cities and countries on the global stage.
- The importance of environmental sustainability takes on as important a role as cultural and economic longevity.
1 Bligh Street, Sydney, 2011
4 Times Square (formerly Condé Nast Building), New York City, 1999
30 St Mary Axe (formerly Swiss Re Tower), London, 2004
333 Wacker Drive, Chicago, 1983
550 Madison Avenue (formerly AT&T Building and Sony Tower), New York City, 1983
601 Lexington (formerly Citigroup Center), New York City, 1977
875 North Michigan Avenue (formerly John Hancock Center), Chicago, 1969
Al Bahar Towers, Abu Dhabi, 2012
AMA Plaza (formerly IBM Plaza), Chicago, 1972
Aqua at Lakeshore East, Chicago, 2009
Bahrain World Trade Center, Manama, 2008
Bank of America Tower, New York City, 2009
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong, 1990
Bosco Verticale, Milan, 2014
Burj Al Arab, Dubai, 1999
Burj Khalifa, Dubai, 2010
CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, 2012
Commerzbank Tower, Frankfurt, 1997
Doha Tower, Doha, 2012
Hearst Tower, New York City, 2006
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters, Hong Kong, 1985
International Commerce Centre (ICC), Hong Kong, 2010
Jardine House, Hong Kong, 1973
Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai, 1999
Linked Hybrid, Beijing, 2009
Lotte World Tower, Seoul, 2017
MahaNakhon, Bangkok, 2016
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 2010
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, Tokyo, 2008
National Commercial Bank, Jeddah, 1983
One Central Park, Sydney, 2014
One World Trade Center, New York City, 2014
PARKROYAL on Pickering, Singapore, 2013
Pearl River Tower, Guangzhou, 2013
Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, 1998
Post Turm, Bonn, 2002
Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, 2018
Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, 2015
Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, 2008
TAIPEI 101, Taipei, 2004
The Leadenhall Building, London, 2014
The Lloyd’s Building, London, 1986
The Shard, London, 2013
Torre Costanera, Santiago, 2014
Torre Reforma, Mexico City, 2016
Tour First, Courbevoie (Paris), 2011
Transamerica Pyramid Center, San Francisco, 1972
Turning Torso, Malmö, 2005
U.S. Bank Tower (formerly Library Tower), Los Angeles, 1990
Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), Chicago, 1974
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